Italian police on Wednesday
arrested a 20-year-old Sassari man for allegedly being the
leader of a gang that beat up a young migrant from Guinea in the
Sardinian city on the evening of September 10.
The man has a criminal record, police said.
They said he had already engaged in similar beatings.
Investigations are continuing to seek the other members of
the gang.
The Guinean man was allegedly felled by an elbow and then
beaten up to shouts of "go home", police said.
He was taken to an ER where doctors diagnosed a broken nose
and bruises all over his body.
Amnesty International said "this episode marks the climate of
intolerance that has been rising in Italy".
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